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Why are PDF files popular?
The Portable Document Format has become a de-facto standard for
document exchange across platforms and computing environments.
More than 200 million PDF documents are posted on the World Wide
Web. Key benefits that have driven this popularity are:
• Integrity: PDF files look like the original documents they were
created from. They conserve their appearance after sharing -
regardless of platform, operating system or local settings on each
computer or device.
• File size: In many cases, PDF files can be more compact than their
source documents - ideal for file transfer.
• Security: PDF files can be digitally signed and password protected
to prevent unauthorized changes.
• Sharing: While the basic document content can be frozen,
commenting and mark-up tools allow collective authoring and
document review.
These advantages apply mainly to file transfer, but many people
receiving PDF files need to access the document content, in order to edit
or reformat it. This is the role of PDF Converter 5.
What PDF Converter does for you
The Nuance
®
PDF Converter 5 lets you unlock PDF and XPS files to edit
them as Microsoft
®
Word
TM
, Microsoft
®
Excel
®
, Microsoft
®
PowerPoint
®
, Corel
®
WordPerfect
TM
, and generic RTF files. It also lets
you open PDF files directly from these applications, edit them and save
them in the appropriate file type. It converts PDF files up to and
including version 1.7. Encrypted PDF files can be opened if the required
password is provided.